The Indian River School Board agreed this week to pay damages to the Dobrich family and to another unnamed Jewish family, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reports. The board also agreed, in a settlement approved Tuesday, to adopt new policies on prayer at school functions.

"I feel that it is a good settlement because the rules are out there," Mona Dobrich told the Times in a telephone interview. "Do I think life is going to change in Sussex County or all the other Sussex Counties in the country? No."

Dobrich, who grew up in rural southern Delaware and attended public schools, said that after years of hearing Christian prayers she was finally moved to speak up when a minister at her daughter's graduation said that accepting Jesus is the only road to truth.

After her protest was made public, hundreds of people showed up at a board meeting to oppose her and the family received death threats. Her son, Alex, 11, was called a "Jew boy."